1. Civil War Southern Leaders Northern Leaders Resources
The Civil War
Civil War
Southern Leaders
Northern Leaders
Resources

2. Questions to be Answered?
Name the Southern leaders.
Name the Northern leaders.
Explain the Union military’s strategy
List the causes of the Civil War.
Explain the Southern military strategy.

3. Causes of the Civil War
Sectional disagreements over tariffs, slavery, and states rights
Abolitionists vs. slaveholders
Dred Scott case
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Failed compromises
Failed Presidency of 1850s
Lincoln’s call for troops in 1861

4. Southern Leaders
Robert E. Lee – Confederate General – opposed secession
General Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederacy

5. Northern Leaders
Abraham Lincoln – President during Civil War – Union will be held together by force if necessary
Ulysses S. Grant – Union military leader
Frederick Douglass- encourage recruitment of black soldiers

6. South Better army during early years of war
Officers trained at West Point
Defensive approach
Felt they could hold out against attacks
Felt that Europe would provide supplies

7. Anaconda Plan, Union Blockade of Confederate ports
Control the Mississippi River
Isolate Confederacy from European aid
Divide Eastern part of Confederacy from Western part
Cut off flow of supplies: money, food, and cotton
Capture Richmond
Ruin the Southern economy
Cut off shipping to and from interior

9. Resources

10. City Strategy
Richmond
Vicksburg
Atlanta
Chattanooga
New Orleans